Some very lucky Space Academy trainees were able to go to Marshall Space Flight Center today to see a few Expedition 15 and Expedition 16 crew members. Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson, Flight Engineer Daniel Tani, and Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson were kind enough to spend some time with some… Continue reading
The new Space Camp Barbie dolls have finally been released! To get a glimpse of how the new dolls look (complete with their U.S. Space & Rocket Center T-Shirts), go visit the Space Camp Barbie Page on Space Camp’s website. Also on that page are links to video clips from… Continue reading
You may have noticed the Space Camp Barbie countdown on Space Camp’s website. Space Camp has once again partnered with Mattel to produce a Space Camp Barbie doll. Though the new Barbie was supposed to be launched at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on July 4, as it turns… Continue reading
The US Space & Rocket Center and Space Camp are featured on this week’s episode of Penn & Teller’s show, Bull…something! Now, if you’ve ever seen the show, you’ll know that they mercilessly attack whatever the topic of the week is. This week the show is about NASA. But, being… Continue reading
Odds are if you went to Space Camp in the late 90s or early 00s, you ran into Tony and/or Nathalie. They might have been your team leaders or they might have run you through one of the simulators or, like me, perhaps Nathalie picked you up at the airport!… Continue reading
Though most of us have already seen the list of the new class of Space Camp Hall of Fame inductees, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center today officially announced the new Hall of Fame inductees. The official press release can be viewed here, but here are the names with details… Continue reading
Space Camp has just launched a much needed makeover to spacecamp.com! Overall, I think it looks like a nice effort! If nothing else, it’s certainly an improvement over the previous site as I’m sure we can all agree that it had gotten a bit cluttered and disorganized. And so well… Continue reading
Some very lucky Space Campers were able to go to Marshall Space Flight Center today to see the crew of STS-122! The crew brought along a highlight reel of their mission and took questions from both Space Campers and NASA-folk alike! Afterwards, the crew was gracious enough to stick around… Continue reading
Here’s a big, bold reminder that today is the very last day to submit your nomination for the 2008 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Get to it!
